Niary, the Hunter – Introduction

WARNING: Although no previous reading is required to play Arena: the Contest, Niary’s story may be considered a Prologue to the events depicted in the game’s Campaign Tome [Player v EnvironmentGame Mode].

Introduction

Niary Henbeddestr is a prodigious girl. An excellent archer, she excelled in the exam forguardian of one of the oldest forests in Tanares, where an elven community that once belonged to the extinct Mystic Kingdom lives [1].

One of her first missions as a Guardian was to help a humane Village confront beasts that came from the Wasteland. The battlehad terrible results, deepening Niary’s resentment against humans, seen as incompetent and inferior [2].

In spite of this, Niary helped (and was helped) by Brutus, a human scholar who had traveled to the Region to follow a clue to solving the problem of the ever-expanding Wasteland [3].

Niary decided to help Brutus reunite with hislost group, but theiradventure put them in the path of the Shadow Wing, an extremist group that aims at the end of the world through the unimpeded expansion of Wasteland [4-5].

As if that were not enough, Brutus’ recklessness led him to be captured and imprisoned by Orcs that held the artifact that could wipe out Wasteland. Thus, Niary was left alone, with a knowledge that could save the world [6]…